Multiple primary melanomas: Our experience
| Autor: | Ioana Cosgarea, Loredana Ungureanu, Alina Vasilovici, Simona Corina Șenilă, Iulia Zboraș, Ștefan Cristian Vesa, Rodica Cosgarea |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Cancer Research
medicine.medical_specialty Multiple tumours business.industry Melanoma second melanoma Cancer asynchronous melanomas General Medicine Articles synchronous melanoma medicine.disease Dermatology Increased risk multiple primary melanomas Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) medicine In patient business subsequent melanoma neoplasms Time to diagnosis |
| Zdroj: | Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine |
| ISSN: | 1792-1015 1792-0981 |
| Popis: | Patients with melanoma have an increased risk of having other neoplasms, and particularly other melanomas and non-melanoma skin cancers. The study aimed to describe multiple primary melanomas in a large medical university centre from Romania (Cluj-Napoca) from 2004 to 2020. Out of 699 patients with melanoma included in the study, 26 (3.71%) developed multiple tumours. The 26 patients developed a total of 59 melanomas, corresponding to a mean of 2.3 melanomas per patient. The site and histological subtype of the first and second melanomas were not consistent. The proportion of subsequent melanomas that were in situ (51.5%) or thin melanomas ( |
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